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Plug In Your Inner Air-Guitaring Rock Star

11/13/06, 5:47 pm EST

You know how the #1 problem with air guitaring is the lack of sound it creates? You can hear the genius shredding going on in your head, but no one else can. That’s all about to change thanks to the brilliant scientific minds behind a new air-strum translating T-shirt. The shirt, which was developed by engineers from the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, uses information collected by motion sensors in the shirt’s elbows and relays them via wireless connection to a mother computer that translates them into sound. Neat, right?

K, here’s where it gets creepy. Apparently this technology could one day be used to “reproduce a person in the virtual world.” We’re not really getting what that means but we like anything that involves us one day being somewhere without actually having to be there.


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Izzy | 11/13/2006, 6:31 pm EST

SWEET!!

anonymous | 11/13/2006, 6:45 pm EST

I dunno, this could either be awesome or really bad…What if the sounds produced by the shirt are terrible guitar playing?

Zachra | 11/13/2006, 7:00 pm EST

Make sure it comes equipped with the Wayne’s World air guitar sounder, and you’ve got yerself a customer.

mcache | 11/13/2006, 7:42 pm EST

Really… is the anything more insipid than playing air guitar? Hey jackass air guitar guy, why don’t you take all your “air effort” and learn how to acutually play an instrument?

L-dog | 11/13/2006, 8:08 pm EST

I think it sounds like fun, but anonymous makes a good point about the music still being sucky…perhaps that’s why the air guitar is so good, because no matter what it would sound like in reality, it sounds good in your head.
And mcache, instead of picking on poor old air guitar guy, why don’t you learn how to spell?

Musically Challenged | 11/13/2006, 8:22 pm EST

If I used this, it woud be worse for it. Not only would people see my dignity eroding, but they would also hear it.

Warzawa | 11/13/2006, 8:57 pm EST

ha…if people want to do it. Who’s to stop them? What I wanna know is does it respond to dancing?

Creepy Girl | 11/14/2006, 1:16 am EST

cant compete with how it sounds in ones head , air guitarist sure to be a big disapointment

toaster_perfect | 11/14/2006, 8:49 am EST

If they created a pair of pants with more advanced movement signatures, the outfit would be very interesting to listen to. I just hope it wouldnt replace real guitarists, or even provoke losers with habits like Ashly Simpson to fake performances. Such technology could be very toublesome.

toaster_perfect | 11/14/2006, 8:50 am EST

As a side note, I would not use this product, because not only would it be embarrassing in public places, but I have better things to spend my money on, like guitar equipment. The easy way out isnt always the best.

Wilco | 11/14/2006, 9:01 am EST

Are the speakers in the armpits?
And how would this be embarassing in public? You’d have your own soundtrack everywhere you go!

Jack D | 11/14/2006, 11:20 am EST

Watch my balls………please!

CAPacelli | 11/14/2006, 12:32 pm EST

this is beyond awesome…i want one

HaroldRosenfeld | 11/14/2006, 5:55 pm EST

Behold the continuing demise of our society.

Jimmy'MC' | 11/15/2006, 7:16 am EST

This could be the first step into our creative minds that leads to the genre of “AirRock”. I love it…

Trix606 | 11/17/2006, 1:16 pm EST

Should call it the Err Guitar.

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